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(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – April 20, 2018 – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announces that on April 19th, 2018, the State Grand Jury indicted Ronald Wilbanks, the former Police Chief for the City of Walhalla, on three counts of Misconduct in Office. Wilbanks resigned from his position on April 17th. He was the police chief of Walhalla since 2012 and a member of the police department for 12 years. Count One of the indictment alleges that from January 2010 until December 2017, Wilbanks asked for and illegally obtained from officers and subordinates under his command narcotic and opiate pills that the officers…

(COLUMBIA, S.C.) – April 13, 2018 – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson announces the guilty plea and sentencing of a Sumter man who was part of a large insurance fraud ring. On April 12, 2018, Jair Hakeem Golden, 21, pleaded guilty as charged to Presenting a False Claim for Payment Greater than $10,000.  Judge R. Ferrell Cothran gave him a Youthful Offender Act sentence, not to exceed 6 years.  This sentence was suspended to 5 years of probation.  A special condition of probation is for Mr. Golden to pay $16,564.12 in restitution.  Probation may terminate upon the payment of restitution. …